How to Print a UPS® Shipping Label at Home (3 Ways, Plus No-Printer Options)

TL;DR: To print a UPS® shipping label at home, create it on UPS.com (signed in or as a guest) or in a shipping app, choose 8.5x11 for a regular printer or 4x6 for a thermal label printer, print at actual size, and attach it flat on the box. No printer? Show the UPS® app barcode at The UPS Store®. If you ship often, Rollo Ship, a free multi-carrier shipping app, compares UPS with other carriers and prints the label straight to your 4x6 printer. For example, a Rollo shipping calculator rate for a 2 lb, 10 x 8 x 4 in box sent UPS® Ground from New York 10001 to Los Angeles 90001 was $10.41* in October 2026. Rates vary by weight and can change.

 

 

 

 

 

You’ve bought your UPS® label, and now it needs to get onto the box. You don’t need special equipment. A regular printer works, a 4×6 thermal label printer works faster, and if you don’t own a printer at all, The UPS Store® can print it for you.

This guide is for online sellers, small businesses, and anyone shipping UPS from home in the US. It also covers what changes if you ship from Canada. It walks through creating the label on UPS.com, printing it three ways, printing from your phone, reprinting or voiding a label, and attaching it so it scans the first time.

If you already sell online and ship most weeks, the later sections show how to print UPS® labels next to your other carriers from one multi-carrier shipping app. Prefer to make your UPS® labels there from the start? See how to create a UPS® shipping label in Rollo Ship.

 

 

How to Create a UPS® Shipping Label on UPS.com

 

Go to Create a Shipment on UPS.com, sign in or continue as a guest, and enter both addresses and the package details. Then pick a service, pay, and choose the label format for your printer: 4×6 for a thermal printer or 8.5×11 for a regular one.

 

 

1. 1. Sign in or ship as a guest. Open Create a Shipment on UPS.com. You can log in to your UPS profile or continue as a guest.
   2. Enter the addresses. Add your name and address under Ship From and the recipient’s under Ship To.
   3. Add the package details. Enter the weight and outside dimensions, then pick a service such as UPS® Ground or UPS Next Day Air®.
   4. Pay and pick a format. Choose 4×6 for a thermal label printer or 8.5×11 for a regular printer.
   5. Print or save it. Print the label now, or come back to it later from your shipping history.

UPS lays out the same steps on its create and print shipping labels page. Accurate weight and dimensions matter here, because UPS bills on the package you describe.

 

 

How Do You Print a UPS® Label at Home?

 

Create the label first, then print it on plain paper with a regular printer, print a peel-and-stick 4×6 label on a thermal printer, or skip printing and have The UPS Store® print it. The best choice depends on how often you ship.

 

 

1. Regular Inkjet or Laser Printer

Print the 8.5×11 label on plain paper, cut it out, and tape it flat to the top of the package. Tape down all four edges, but never put tape over the barcode, since glare can stop scanners from reading it. This is fine for the occasional package, but ink, paper, and taping add up fast when you ship often.

 

2. 4×6 Thermal Label Printer

UPS says UPS.com works with most thermal printers that print 4×6 labels. Choose the 4×6 format when you create the label, then print, peel, and stick. There’s no ink, toner, cutting, or taping.

 

• • Load direct thermal labels. Thermal printers use heat, not ink, so they need 4×6 direct thermal label stock.
  • Set up printing once. UPS’s own setup uses your printer’s driver plus the free UPS® Thermal Printing App, with pop-ups allowed for UPS.com. Its thermal printing guide walks through it.
  • Print at actual size. If the label opens as a PDF, set the paper to 4×6 and print at 100%, not “fit to page,” so the barcode isn’t shrunk.
  • Check the first one. The barcode should be sharp and whole, with nothing cut off.

A Rollo Wireless Label Printer prints a 4×6 UPS® label in about a second. For more on choosing and setting up a printer, see our guides to UPS® label printers and printing UPS® labels without ink.

 

3. No Printer? Use The UPS Store®

UPS says you can print your label at home or at The UPS Store®. The simplest route is the UPS® mobile app. After you finish a shipment in the app, your confirmation includes a barcode, and any The UPS Store® location can scan it and print your label, according to the UPS® app page.

Not every shipment you make online comes with a mobile barcode. If yours doesn’t, save the label PDF and print it at The UPS Store® or another print shop. Ask the store about any printing fee before you go.

 

 

Regular Printer vs. Thermal Printer: Which Should You Use?

 

A regular printer is fine if you ship a few packages a month. If you ship every week, a 4×6 thermal printer is faster and has no ink to buy, and its labels peel off ready to stick. UPS.com supports both formats.

 

 

	Regular printer	4×6 thermal printer
Ink or toner	Required, an ongoing cost	None
What comes out	An 8.5×11 sheet you cut and tape	A peel-and-stick 4×6 label
Speed	Slower, plus trimming	About one label per second on a Rollo printer
UPS.com format	8.5×11	4×6
Setup	Your normal printer	Printer driver, plus the UPS® Thermal Printing App, or a PDF printed at 100%
Best for	Occasional shipments	Regular and high-volume sellers

 

Rollo printer speed is from Rollo’s product pages, October 2026.

If shipping is part of your week, whether you sell on eBay, Amazon, Shopify, or TikTok Shop, a thermal printer saves ink, paper, and the time spent taping. Wondering whether UPS will give you a printer instead? Our guide to getting a UPS® thermal printer for free explains who qualifies.

 

 

 

Can You Print a UPS® Label From Your Phone?

 

Yes, on an iPhone or Android phone. Create the shipment in the UPS® app or a shipping app, then send the label to a Wi-Fi or AirPrint printer on the same network. With no printer, show the app’s barcode at The UPS Store® instead.

 

 

1. 1. Create or open the label in the UPS® app, on UPS.com in your phone’s browser, or in your shipping app.
   2. Tap share or print and choose your printer. An AirPrint printer shows up on an iPhone or iPad with nothing to install.
   3. Set the paper to 4×6 for a thermal printer, check the preview, and print.

A USB-only printer needs a computer, so open the label on your laptop instead. Shipping from an office? UPS’s desktop software, WorldShip®, and its multi-user web tool, UPS CampusShip®, also print labels to the same printers.

 

 

How to Reprint or Void a UPS® Label

 

Reprint a UPS® label from Shipping History on UPS.com. If you won’t ship it, void it there within 90 days of creating it. After 90 days you have to ask UPS, and UPS won’t process a void after 180 days.

 

Reprint a Lost or Damaged Label

 

1. 1. Log in to UPS.com and open View Shipping History.
   2. Choose the shipment you need the label for.
   3. On the Printing Activities tab, select Labels, then the label type you want.
   4. If you’ve set up more than one label printer, pick the printer to use.

Use a reprinted label on the same package only. One shipment should carry one label.

 

Void a Label You Won’t Use

In Shipping History, open the action menu next to the shipment and choose Void. A red dot appears in the Voided column once it’s done. UPS’s void a shipment page sets the limits below.

 

Time since you created the label	What you can do
Up to 90 days	Void it yourself in Shipping History
90 to 180 days	Contact UPS to request a void
More than 180 days	UPS won’t process the void

 

Based on UPS.com support pages, checked October 2026.

 

How Long Is a UPS® Label Good For?

UPS doesn’t publish a fixed expiry date for a shipping label. It publishes the void windows above, which some sites misread as a 90-day validity rule. The safe habit is to create the label close to the day you ship, and void it if your plans change.

 

 

How Much Does a UPS® Shipping Label Cost?

 

You pay for the postage, which depends on the service, the package’s weight and size, how far it travels, and where you buy it. UPS.com, shipping apps and marketplaces can price the same label differently. Insurance above the included coverage and other extras cost more.

 

UPS adjusts its rates every year, usually in late December, so a label you priced last year may cost more now. A few ways to keep costs down:

 

• • Match the service to the deadline. Don’t pay for next-day delivery on a package that can arrive next week.
  • Weigh and measure accurately. A shipping scale keeps you from overpaying or getting a bill later for an underpaid label.
  • Know what Ground Saver needs. UPS Ground Saver®, formerly SurePost, is a slower, lower-cost service for customers with a UPS contract. Delivery takes about one to two days longer than UPS® Ground.
  • Compare before you print. A shipping app shows UPS next to other carriers for the same package, so you can see whether UPS is the right pick for this one.

Wondering how UPS compares with the Postal Service? See UPS vs. USPS for ecommerce shipping.

 

 

Where to Place a UPS® Shipping Label

 

Stick the label flat on the top, largest surface of the box, away from seams and edges. Remove or black out any old labels and barcodes so only one can be scanned. Keep tape off the barcode so it scans the first time.

 

 

• • Keep the barcode flat. Don’t wrap it over an edge, a corner, or a seam.
  • Tape around, not over. On a paper label, tape all four edges but keep tape off the barcode.
  • One label per box. Cover old shipping labels completely, or take them off.
  • Reused boxes: black out old barcodes and addresses too.

Scheduling a UPS On-Call Pickup® from home or office is available in Rollo Ship once the label is created, or you can drop off at a UPS Access Point® location.

 

 

UPS® Labels Available in Rollo Ship Alongside Your Other Carriers

 

If you ship every week, a multi-carrier shipping app lets you buy UPS® labels next to your other carriers, see the rates side by side, and print each one to the same 4×6 printer, one at a time or in a batch.

 

Once you know how to print, the time sink is repeating it order after order: switching between carrier sites, retyping addresses, and feeding paper. Rollo Ship is free multi-carrier shipping software for US and Canadian sellers. Rollo isn’t a carrier, and you pay postage to the carrier at the rate you see. It imports orders from stores like eBay, Amazon, Shopify, and TikTok Shop, so addresses fill in for you.

Here’s what you can ship with, by where you ship from:

 

Ships from	Carriers in Rollo Ship	Rates
United States	USPS, UPS, and FedEx (connect your own FedEx account)	Up to 90% off retail USPS rates on select services; discounted UPS® rates*
Canada	Canada Post, UPS, Purolator, and FedEx (connect your own account for Purolator and FedEx)	Canada Post up to 34% off domestic and 58% off international; UPS® Standard up to 76% off within Canada and up to 63% off to the U.S.**

Creating and batch-printing UPS® labels (4×6 thermal or 8.5×11) for UPS® Ground, UPS Ground Saver® (US-only), UPS 3 Day Select®, UPS 2nd Day Air® and UPS Next Day Air® is available in Rollo Ship, with up to 81% off UPS® Ground.*

 

US-origin shipments: *Discounts off UPS daily rates. Rates are limited to shipping from the U.S. only. Rates and any applicable discounts are subject to change at any time without notice. The 81% off UPS® Ground figure applies to dimensional rates.

 

Canada-origin shipments: **Discounts off UPS daily rates. Rates are limited to shipping from Canada only. Rates and any applicable discounts are subject to change at any time without notice. Inclusive of applicable fuel and residential surcharge. Not including other additional applicable charges and taxes. UPS® services and discounted rates shown are for shipments originating in Canada.

Your first 200 labels are free, then 5¢ per label, dropping to as low as 1¢ with Rollo Rewards. There’s no monthly fee. See every US carrier and service or the UPS® services in Rollo Ship. Shipping from Canada? See Rollo Ship for Canada and its Canadian carriers.

 

 

 

Final Words

 

There’s no single best way to print a UPS® label at home, only the best way for how often you ship. Create the label, pick the method that fits, and get it flat on the box before pickup or drop-off.

Ship once in a while? A regular printer and some tape are fine, and The UPS Store® covers you with no printer at all. Ship every week? A 4×6 thermal printer and one shipping app for all your carriers save real time on every order.

When you’re ready, price your next package across carriers and print the label in seconds.

 

 

 

 

Who This Guide Is Not For

 

This guide covers printing UPS® labels you buy yourself, mostly from the US. It won’t fit every situation. Very occasional shippers, retailer return labels, large shipping teams, and marketplace-issued labels each work a little differently, as explained in the list below.

 

 

• • One or two packages a year. You don’t need a thermal printer or a shipping app. Print the 8.5×11 label on any printer, or use The UPS Store®.
  • Return labels from a retailer. Follow the retailer’s instructions, since its return label or QR code may work differently.
  • Large shipping teams. If several people ship from one account every day, UPS CampusShip® or WorldShip®, or a shipping app with batch printing, will fit better than printing one label at a time.
  • Marketplace-issued labels. If eBay, Amazon, or another marketplace sells you the UPS® label, print it from that order so the tracking matches.